Over three years, Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn (2001) conducted a quasi-experimental evaluation of the Moving to Opportunities project, a program which helps families to move from public housing to better neighborhoods. The study suggests that living in less disadvantaged neighborhoods, as defined by the Census or, to a lesser extent, as perceived by the family, is associated with a decrease in children arguing with or disobeying their parents; it was also correlated to mothers being less harsh in their parenting. Participating families were largely African American or Hispanic (n=293), living in public housing. Roughly a third of the families chose to participate in one of the two randomly assigned treatment housing options; this group was more disadvantaged than the study group in general. Similarly, cross-sectional data from the NLSY79 indicate a significant association between living in areas with high levels of high school dropouts--- indicative of insufficient educational resources in the community--- and lower levels of maternal warmth and responsiveness towards her child (Kowaleski-Jones, 1996). The sample consisted of the 860 children between the ages of 14 and 18 (in 1994) of women in the NLSY79. These participants are not representative of 14- to 18-year-old adolescents in general, however, as they were all born to mothers of unusually young childbearing age.